Digital Marketing Executive

Currys plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK tech retailer in London is seeking a Digital Marketing Executive to optimize PPC campaigns and drive performance based on data analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience in PPC management, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in tools like Google Ads and Google Analytics. This full-time role offers a hybrid working model, opportunities for growth, and a host of benefits including 25 days of annual leave and colleague discounts.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Colleague discounts

Life Assurance

Champion Health access

Qualifications

• Understanding of PPC within the digital strategy.
• Experience as a PPC executive or analyst.
• Ability to manage campaign briefs and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on KPIs and manage PPC performance.
• Execute and optimize campaigns with agencies.
• Analyze data to inform decision-making.

Skills

PPC management

Google Ads

Google Analytics

Microsoft Excel

Creative writing

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Digital marketing training or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Digital Marketing Executive (PPC Exec)

Currys London Campus at Waterloo

Permanent

Full Time

Grade 3

We’re iD Mobile, one of the UK’s leading mobile virtual network operators. We launched in May 2015 and have over 1.7 million Pay Monthly customers. We’re pretty sure our success has a lot to do with our wide range of feature‑packed plans. We offer everything from super‑value Pay‑as‑you‑go and SIM‑only deals, right up to the latest smartphones from the big‑name manufacturers. We’re delighted about our success so far and have very ambitious plans for the future.

iD Mobile is an exciting place to work. We’re a relatively young and dynamic start‑up, and we value innovation, imagination, and creativity. If you’ve got a great idea, we’ll help you run with it. We’re passionate about finding new ways to address our customers’ needs. We’re a little different to other start‑ups, though, because we’re part of Currys PLC, Europe’s leading electrical and mobile retailer. So, while iD Mobile has only been going for a few years, we’re part of a much bigger family.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver against both personal and business KPIs
• Support your manager in form, owning, implementing and measuring performance against a “paid” channel strategy
• Work closely, and independently, with our agency, plan, brief, execute and optimise all campaigns to deliver against business objectives, both financially & strategically
• Deliver and manage new product launches across your channels
• Drive conversion of journeys through analyses and optimisation with the support of your colleagues in Digital insight, UI/UI and ecommerce
• Carry out onsite journeys analysis to continuously enhance efficiency of your channels
• Analyse Google, Microsoft and wider industry insights & trends to inform data‑driven decisions
• Oversee and analyse existing campaigns performance and manage optimisation through agency and internal teams
• Propose creative and engaging copy to for digital ads in your channel
• Own periodic and ad‑hoc reporting (performance as well as strategic/developmental) for your channel
• Present insights and reporting to audiences varying from your manager, to the online team as well as, from time to time, all of the iD business
• Write creative and engaging copy to highlight key USPs for digital ads
• Build and maintain a performance tracker to share the health of PPC/PMax/Shopping program with iD management
• Produce detailed analysis and reports for weekly & monthly performance of Paid Search channel

Required Skills & Experience

• A good understanding of how PPC/PMax/Shopping fit into the wider digital strategy
• Previous experience working as a PPC executive, analyst or specialist within a search agency or an in‑house digital team
• You will have had ownership of a PPC channel’s account structure, budget tracker and key KPIs
• Good interpersonal skills to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, with a strong ability to present information effectively to a range of audiences
• Strong commercial aptitude with effective communication skills
• Well versed with new ad technology including PMax & DSAs to drive better value for business
• Able to independently manage campaigns briefs for the agency liaising with marketing, design and trading teams
• Experience of working with tools such as Google Ads, Google Analytics
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel and data manipulation
• Highly organised and detail‑minded in order to effectively manage commercially confidential documentation
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a good level of mathematical ability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Creative writing skills

Desirable

• Experience with Power BI
• Ideally formally trained in digital marketing, ecommerce or variants thereof

Why join us

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement) and a competitive pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Fantastic Colleague Discounts on Tech with Currys and iD Mobile
• Access to Champion Health
• Hybrid Working (with an expectation to meet in person 2‑4 times per month)

Join our team and we’ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on‑going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.